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30 <br />ARTICLE 4 - DISTRICT STATEMENTS OF INTENT AND APPLICATION CRITERIA <br />( "Yes" indicates Compliance: 'No" indicates Non- comoliancel <br />PLANNING <br />STAFF <br />RECOMMENDED EVIDENCE SUBMITTED <br />FINDINGS TO SUPPORT FINDINGS <br />Ordinance Requirements <br />Article 4.2 identifies the criteria <br />which will normally be used to <br />determine the application of a <br />zoning district designation. The <br />applicant has applied for a Local <br />Commercial -1 and Neighborhood <br />Commercial -2 designation. The <br />criteria for these districts are <br />set forth in Article 4.2.8 and <br />4.2.9 as follows: <br />(a) Located within areas designated _x—Yes No The property is located in a <br />by the adopted Comprehensive Plan Rural Neighborhood Activity <br />as either a Commercial Transition Node. <br />Activity Node or Rural Neighborhood <br />or Rural Community Activity Node. <br />(b) Uses would serve a market area _x Yes No Permitted uses would be those <br />population confined to the allowed in the LC -1 and NC -2 <br />immediate area and would zoning districts, which are <br />generally not serve commuters small scale commercial and <br />or persons outside the service areas. <br />surrounding neighborhood. <br />(c) Lot size for individual uses <br />shall be appropriate to the <br />method of water supply and <br />sewage disposal. <br />(d) Normally, the maximum amount of <br />land zoned LC -1 and NC -2 at any <br />node shall not exceed nine acres, <br />but a maximum of 5 acres shall <br />apply where population density is <br />lower and distributed more widely <br />than in the transition areas. <br />(e) All sites designated LC -1 and <br />NC -2 shall have direct access <br />to a street classified either <br />as an arterial or collector as <br />designated by the adopted <br />Comprehensive Plan. <br />PLANNING <br />BOARD <br />FINDINGS <br />Yes <br />Yes <br />_x—yes No The Orange County Health Yes <br />Department has determined <br />that each proposed district <br />has an area of suitable soils <br />for ground absorption sewage <br />treatment and disposal. <br />Improvements permit issuance <br />would be pending final survey, <br />waste flow of proposed develop- <br />ment and protection of the <br />approved area of suitable soils. <br />_x —Yes No The request to rezone the Yes <br />property would not exceed the <br />maximum of 5 acres of land <br />zoned LC -1 and NC -2 at the <br />BH -1 Activity Node. It would, <br />however, complete the allotment <br />for both zones within the Rural <br />Neighborhood Node. <br />_x—yes No The property has direct access Yes <br />to NC Highway 54 which is <br />designated as an arterial in <br />the adopted Comprehensive Plan. <br />.n <br />Iil . <br />(m <br />No <br />2 <br />-AM <br />